1213 UN in action

The Global Issues Class is adding a chapter to the UN Book.

The chapter will describe the UN's efforts to fight human trafficking.

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These people are responsible for the various tasks:

Reports	Maiti
UN Agencies, NGOs, and State	Spencer
Vocabulary	Sho and Ali
Laws and Treaties	Flo
News	Ian
Stories	Isaac

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The project was completed in phases.

Phase	Task	Date of completion
1	Gather sources of information	April 25, 2013
2	Organize the information into an outline	May 9, 2013
3	Write a rough draft that includes visuals	May 23, 2013
4	Final product	June 3, 2013

More detail about each phase is given in the table below.

Phase	Task Details
1	Create a wiki page and link sources to that page. Summarize the information found on each source.
2	On the wiki page, make an outline of the three major points you will discuss on your page. Under each point, list the three major details that support that section.

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The topic of the chapter was chosen from the following list of possibilities.

Economic Issues	Social Issues	Human Right Issues	Environment Issues	Disarmament Issues
Finance Crisis	Poverty	Human Trafficking	Endangered Species	Nuclear Threat
Corruption	Malnutrition	Organ Trafficking	Global Climate Change	Militias
	Illicit Drugs	Elections	Pollution	Small Arms
	Education	Death Penalty	Water
	Diseases	Conflict Diamonds	Deforestation
		Child Labor

Some UN Agencies that deal with Human Trafficking are;
United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UNGIFT) - Website
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - Website
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Website
United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) - Website
United Nations Global Compact - Website
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Website

The summative rubric for this activity is posted below. At the end of the project, students will receive a grade based on this rubric.


More information will be posted on this page.